Blockland Internet cPanel Development

[Uristqwerty]

Here's an idea: A very simple webserver that hosts a single page on a nonstandard port, that, with the right login, grants server controls for startup, shutdown, and file access, while blockland itself serves the main pages from in-game?

If the webserver was a custom precompiled program, then users wouldn't need to install an entire webserver to control Blockland remotely.

But requiring PHP, a webserver that supports PHP, and a database? That's a bit excessive, especially since over half of the users will want it so that they can run their server while they are away from home. And people with actual servers that could use this probably already have a sufficiently advanced system for these kinds of things.

[Ad Bot]

[Fluff-is-back]

This could be done so that the PHP server would be hosted remotely by an already set up web hosting provider.

[Uxie]

You have to understand that nobody is going to use this, and if they need something to manage their dedicated server remotely they'd use RTB. How many people do you honestly expect to:

1) Download this
2) Download + install + configure a webserver
3) Download + install + configure PHP
4) Mess about with their routers to get port forwarding configured correctly

You realize this game is focused on kids aged 8 to 14? And you expect them to be able to do all this?

What's that about? You know you can't do that right? That's insane. You've honestly put absolutely zero thought into this yet you're already claiming it's nearly done. You're asking people to host the whole thing themselves but use a remote database? Where's the sense in that?

Correction, I started at age 10 and could do all this. And more.

[DrenDran]

it's not transmitting your desktop's IP and ports across 10 or more routers.

Hahahahahaha.
lol

[Ephialtes]

Correction, I started at age 10 and could do all this. And more.

Is that why you're using "createaforum"?

[Scout31]

You're asking people to host the whole thing themselves but use a remote database? Where's the sense in that?

There are generally more problems with MySQL than PHP and Apache.

Is that why you're using "createaforum"?

Perhaps his bandwidth is crap.

[Ephialtes]

There are generally more problems with MySQL than PHP and Apache.

So use Sqlite, wtf? If you knew anything about webdev at all you'd know that's the obvious choice.

[Wedge]

Voted no because of:

Webserver (Preferably Apache)
PHP Installation (exec() function must be enabled)

Here's a better idea, make a twitter account for a computer and for yourself. Write a program that interprets specific tweets into server commands. For example, tweet "info" and your computer sends back brick count, players, uptime, etc. Tweet "ban x" and the server bans them. Tweet "change map to bedroom" and it changes the map to bedroom. Things like enabled and disabled add-ons can be listed on pastebin and linked to on twitter.

This will run on many phones, game consoles, laptops, computers, etc, with almost no setup required for the server.

Of course this forum doesn't allow you to post executables, so good luck bridging the gap. Maybe you can distribute the source and have people compile it themselves.

[DrenDran]

Voted no because of:
Here's a better idea, make a twitter account for a computer and for yourself. Write a program that interprets specific tweets into server commands. For example, tweet "info" and your computer sends back brick count, players, uptime, etc. Tweet "ban x" and the server bans them. Tweet "change map to bedroom" and it changes the map to bedroom. Things like enabled and disabled add-ons can be listed on pastebin and linked to on twitter.

This will run on many phones, game consoles, laptops, computers, etc, with almost no setup required for the server.

Of course this forum doesn't allow you to post executables, so good luck bridging the gap. Maybe you can distribute the source and have people compile it themselves.

1. But hosting a website, or what you're saying, can actually be done as just an add-on.
2. I've posted executables here before, when I've made a topic about a game I'm making or something, nothing bad happened.

[Wedge]

But hosting a website, or what you're saying, can actually be done as just an add-on.

Having people host a website on their home computer, especially when it's just a backend to a program, is a stuffty solution to just about everything. If the point of this was to develop something that would be deployed on a dedicated server at some hosting company thats fine, and they might even already have apache or php installed. But there's about 3 people on the whole forum who would even use this then, and these people would probably be more inclined to write their own interface.

You can't make people install php and apache on their home computer because you're too lazy to come up with a real solution.

I'll throw another idea out there too: adding or deleting mods on the server through dropbox.

[DrenDran]

You can't make people install php and apache on their home computer because you're too lazy to come up with a real solution.

I meant completely as an add-on.
Truce posted a script, which I have greatly extended for my own use, that let's a server host a website, and it even let's you use torque script in place of php, it is completely in one add-on, no php or apache required. It's as simple as putting the add-on in your folder.

Port forwarding another port for the website doesn't seem like a big deal, but then again, there are some people who have trouble port forwarding at all.